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"The Strategic Dialogue is intended to become an important mechanism of political dialogue and practical interaction between Russia and the United Kingdom on foreign policy and defense issues aimed at facilitating trusting discussions and agreeing upon positions on the most relevant aspects of the international agenda and bilateral military-political cooperation," the Russian Foreign Ministry said earlier.

The foreign and defense ministers will also have separate meetings on the sidelines of the Strategic Dialogue meeting, at which the parties intend to thoroughly discuss Russian-British political, trade-economic, and cultural ties and military and military-technological cooperation, it said.

The parties plan to adopt a number of documents based on the meeting's outcomes, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

The Defense Ministry told Interfax-AVN that the meeting envisions "a discussion on a broad range of issues of mutual interest."

"The program of Russian Defense Minister Army Gen. Sergei Shoigu's visit to London envisions a meeting with his British counterpart Philip Hammond, at which the parties will address the current condition and prospects of the development of Russian-British relations in the military field and exchange opinions on the development of the military-political situation in some regions of the world," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.